Android Broadcast receiver not receving income SMS

Question

I have written a SMS receiver for catching income SMS , everything looks fine but it doesn't works and no SMS income received by the receiver . this is the codes and manifest content. As I remember I had same app has written in android 2.3 working fine but this code is running in android 4.x which is not functioning properly. what is the problem ? Is it depends on security issues of android 4.x ?

Manifest:

<receiver android:name="SmsReceiver">
        <intent-filter android:priority="100">
            <action android:name="android.provider.telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

Java Code:

 public class SmsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

private static final String SMS_RECEIVED = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED";

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    String action = intent.getAction();
    Logger.i("INCOMMING SMS...");
    if (action == SMS_RECEIVED) {
        Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
        if (bundle != null) {
            Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
            final SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
            for (int i = 0; i < pdus.length; i++) {
                messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]);
            }
            if (messages.length > -1) {
                String sendr = messages[0].getOriginatingAddress();
                Logger.i(sendr);
            }
        }
    }
}


}

Read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8030777/android-provider-telephony-sms-received-not-working-on-my-device-htc-wildfire — Pankaj Kumar, Aug 02 '13 at 09:16
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Helmisek · Answer 1 · 2013-08-02T09:33:09.433

I had the same problem and I've fixed it by adding two more actions to the manifest registered receiver so it will look like this:

<receiver android:name=".SmsReceiver">
    <intent-filter android:priority="100">
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE"/>
        <action android:name="android.provider.telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"/>
        <action android:name="com.your.package.android.action.broadcast"/>
    </intent-filter>
  </receiver>

also add permission :

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />

And for comparsion of Strings do not use equals operator, but equals method instead.(Note. equalsIgnoreCase() should be better for you.)

so it will be like:

if(SMS_RECEIVED.equalsIgnoreCase(action))
{
//continue
}

Hope it helps.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '13 at 22:47

I had the same problem as you and after much research on the net, I found the problem. Your application is not started and the Emulator Control doesn't send the option --include-stopped-packages as the adb command can do it. It is a feature introduced with Android 3.x.

So, your receiver never receives the broadcast because your application is not started. To start it first, open a console from your system and type the following command:

*adb -e shell am broadcast -a android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED --include-stopped-packages*

Your BroadcastReceveiver receive an empty SMS.

After this command, your process is displayed in the Devices view, and you can send SMS from your emulator control.

Android Broadcast receiver not receving income SMS

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